The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 22, 1933, Page 1

J Subscribers Should Be Visited by Specially Selected Workers to See If Their Service Is Satisfactory ! ail Central Or LE, orker ist Party U.S.A. (Section of the Communist International) Get A Regular Subscription from Every Member of Your Organization THE WEATHER 4j0% — ‘Today—Local thunder showers; (AER New York, N. ¥., Vol. X, No. 175 Entered as socomd-cless matier at the Post Offies at under the Act of March 8, 1878, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1933 a. CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents BULLETS, TEAR GAS FAIL TO BREAK HOSIERY STRIKE ade and the War Danger HE Union of Socialist Soviet Republics—now a colossal Power covering one-sixth of the surface of the earth and having banished unemploy- ment, economic crises and insecurity—inevitably by its policy of peace and Socialist construction secures certain concessions from a capitalist world that is gasping in agony. * UT the talk of recognition of the Soviet Union, as well as the reported consideration by the United States government of a new six-year credit for cotton purchases in America, and the fevered activities in Great Britain and France concerning proposed trade agreements, should create no illusions among the workers. The many new triumphs of the Soviet state—reflecting not alone its skill in diplomacy and in.the Marxist-Leninist political science, but also the great growth of its economic and physical strength—must not be mistaken to mean that there is on the whole a decrease in the imminent danger of war against the Soviet Union. Certainly the series of new tregties of hon-aggression are gains for the peace policy of the Soviet Union (the only Great Power which conducts a real peace policy), But we must not forget that these successes are won in the midst of a capi- -+talist world which is with increasing velocity rushing into ‘the first stages of the second imperialist war. ™ * Soviet Tr. * * * * HE capitalist need for markets—even for the Soviet market, to be won by force, if possible, or accepted by agreement, if necessary—is in- creased by the deepening economic crisis. If there are altered relations between the two great systems, Capi- talism and Socialism, these changes: only reveal the ever sharper contra- dictions between them, arising as they do out of the growing strength of Socialism and the growing crisis of capitalism. The forces working for a bloody war of intervention against the Soviet Union are not declining, but are increasing, piling up and being organized by the same capitalist | powers which by the logic of their own catastrophe are compelled to make temporary concessions. (Witness, for example, the continued poli- cy of Roosevelt of incitation of military attack by Japan -against the Soviet Union in the hope of weakening both.) \ The workers must never forget that the imperialist war drive against the Workers’ Socialist Republics is a part of the class struggle, and the class struggle is not set aside by treaties. * * 'HE only weapon against war and against the intervention conspiracy is the workers’ revolutionary weapon. All out on August First in a emighty demonstration against war and for the defense of the Soviet Union! «.Ne-Saerifice for Bosses ORKERS who might have been inclined to listen to the talk of William Green, Sydney Hillman and other betrayers of labor who are helping the employers and the government put over the- Industrial Recovery (Slavery) Act should carefully consider the words of Percy 8, Straus. Straus is president of the big department store, R. H. Macy & Co. It is one of the worst labor exploiters in the country, employing girls at starvation wages. Yet Mr. Straus, speaking at the “recovery forum” of the National Retail Dry Goods Association .yesterday, said: “We employers have sacrificed nothing in agreeing to maximum hours and minimum wages.” Here is the plain statement of one who knows. It is g refutation of the talk of Green and others to the effect that the Roosevelt administra- tion is compelling the bosses to make’ sacrifices in the interest of “recovery.” Straus urged the bosses to hasten to sign the codes. He overlooked the fact that as soon as the details of each industrial code came to light there had to be some twisting and turning on the part of the labor agents of the government to fool the workers in those dndustries in an effort to head off strikes against them. * * x LSO noieworthy in the Straus speech was the warning to his associ- ates not to boost prices too high or trade would be killed, simply be- on for months and will continue with inflation and with the policy of the Roosevelt administration of charging high monopoly prices at home so that “dumping prices” can be established abroad in the trade war which Wall Street is carrying on against rival capitalist. powers. Straus’ warning not to raise prices too high comes at a time when trade is again rapidly falling and it is further proof of the fact that every attempt of the government and the employers to finda capitalist way out of the crisis only makes matters worse. “Rally Against War August Ist!” Urges Manifesto Calls for Intensified Work in Fac- tories, Blocks, Offices, for Mighty Demonstration NEW YORK.—The New York District of the Communist Party today added its call for a gigantic workers’ demonstration against war on August Ist to the’ call of the Communist International and the other workers’ organizations, In a manifesto addressed to all workers, Negro and white, young and ON TOKIO OPENS WARFUND DRIVE: ican Federation of Labor Unions, is} declared that “only the organized, Billion Yen to Speed War in Far East; for ance and against capitalist oppres-| | Penditures. united might and power of the work- rs can defeat the imperialist war| plans and win the masses’ struggle | unemployment and social insur- | sion.” The District urged all its séctions | to intensity with the greatest energy | their work in preparation for Aug. 1; Attack on USSR | to increase their work among the | Mean |masses in the shops and factories, TOKIO, July 21.—With a terrifying in the neighborhoods and blocks, in air bombardment maneuvre over | the stores and offices. Tokio, the Araki militarist govern- | ment of Japan yesterday opened up| The manifesto outlines the intense | its campaign for increased war ex- | Preparations for war by the capitalist ‘governments, under cover of “peace | Though the greater proportion of | talk.” “While Roosevelt speaks about | the government expenditures are go- | ‘Peace,’ American capitalism, pushes | ing out for war in Manchukuo and the perfection of its huge war ma- Preparations for war against the So-|Chinery,” through the National Re-| viet Union, the Aaki government is COvery Act, the militarising of 300,000 asking for an increased war budget to Young men in forced labor camps, the total around 1,000,000,000 yen ($500,- | development of Muscle Shoals, and in 000,000 at par). | many other ways, ‘while the sharpest | Besides the increased government economic conflict is going on among expenditures, individual capitalists the imperialist powers. It adds: have contributed over $5,000,000 in| “Fascism Brings War Nearer” C. P., N.Y. District! % Special Strike News Monday | The second story of the series by | Herman Michelson, special Daily | Worker correspondent covering Pennsylvania strike struggles, will appear Monday. Watch for if. Send for your bundle orders im- Two Workers Shot As Hosiery | mediately, Arrange wide distribu- | tion of the Daily Worker especially | in Pennsylvania and other Eastern States, Monday’s stories will deal with | the struggles in Lansdale and Phil- | adelphia. | DEEPENING CRISIS SYMPTOMS SHOWN IN STOCK CRASH Virtual Panic as Big Banks Tighten Credit Tn Inflation Boom NEW YORK.—Two days of teriffic | crashes in the stock market jolted | the Roosevelt inflated gambling boom | that has already put millions into the | pockets of the stock gamblers. } On Friday, after the cracks in the market had equalled the 1929 debacle, | the signal for the starting of the} crisis after production had been slow- ing up, the board of governors of the New York Ctock Exchange met to consider the advisability of closing the market for Saturday. | This is done only in cases of extreme panic on the market. | Over 9,000,000 shares were dum) on the market in order to cash in be- fore the drop continued further. The drop in the stock market is connected with the slowing up of pro- | Polico dispcsst i: Police Hurl Bombs at Hosiery Strikers > (Le striking Lansdale hosiery workers by throw- tear-gas bombs, blinding and choking them. Two of the strikers were shot and several others wounded by the attack. Strikers Battle Cops and Scabs Lansdale Workers | Fight for Pay . Increases | By Herman Michelson. | Daily Worker Special Correspondent, | LANSDALE, Pa., July 20. | Tear gas bombs having failed to shake the fighting spirit of the 1,700 hosiery strikers here, the Dexdale mill tried bullets today. For two hours West Main Street, in front of the plant, was a battlefield. More than a thousand of the strikers, with several thousand sympathetic townsfolk looking on and newsreel and press cameras trained on the Scene, marched and counter-marched through choking clouds of gas. Strikebreakers’ cars were stoned and the police, mounted and on foot, gave up all hope of preventing the enraged strikers from throwing the fear of God into the scabs as they sneaked out of the plant. Gunfire Fells Fur ‘Workers, The shooting was an almost un- exampled case of deliberate terror- ism, raised to the highest dramatic pitch by the setting. An imported sharpshooter, whose identity is care- fully guarded, stood up on the roof ; of the mill, in full view of the thou- duction in basic industries ‘like steel and automobile. The market rise was due to the first dose of inflation injected by Roosevelt and has now ae its ey be | opening the way for fi er inflation.) to fill the pockets* of thé” paFasites Workers and Artists Pay sands in the street below, and care- fully selected his victims. Several times he aimed, then shook his head and lowered the rifle. Finally he jaimed at a young worker—the strik- ers, boys and girls, are for the greater part in their late teens, and cause people could not buy at such prices. Price boosts have been going | plies. |» The biggest increase will go to the |Mavy, which is preparing for a battle to dominate the Pacific and the Chi- nese markets, | This is in line with. Wall Streets, | Move towards the same end seen in | the expenditure of $238,000,000 out of the public works funds for battle- | ship/building. | oie wis Dynamite, Bombs for China | By a Worker Correspondent SAN PEDRO, Calif—The Norwe- ; gian motorship “Tai Shan” arrived in | this port- from the East Coast Sunday, July 16th. It had aboard a cargo of | 5,000 airplane bombs and an unknown quantity of dynamite. It was con- signed to the National Government, | | Shanghai, China. No doubt this goes to the Nanking clique to start an- Eanes drive against the Chinese So- | viets. | Seven ‘Aug. 1 Meets In Steel District YOUNGSTOWN, O., July 21—The | Communist Party announces that | preparations are under way for seven | August. First Anti-War demonstra- | tions in the Steel Center of Youngs- town Section. Youngstown demon- stration will take place at Watt and Federal Sts., at 4 p. m. Demonstrations will also take place | in Warren, Newton Falls, Masury, | Salem, New Castle and Campbell. machine guns. and. other..war-sup-} | “The advent of the Fascist dictator- | ®nd increase prices of food for the ship to power ‘necannane and the | Workers while lowering their wages. | demand of German capitalisin for re-| Because of the heavy dip in grain vision of the Versailles Treaty has prices, the grain markets were closed . Last Respects to Potamkin aes. NEW YORK.—Hundreds of work-/ Widow Pays Tribute ers, artists and writers attended the| 6 a red funeral of Harry Allan. Potam-| to Role of “Daily | further sharpened the conflict be- tween Germany and France, and Italy and Germany and has Lge nies the danger of war ever nearer. | “Especially is the danger of im-( perialist armed intervention against the Soviet Union imminent. This is} |seen in the increased provocations of | Japanese imperialism supported by other capitalist powers agfinst the U.S. 8. R., as well as the recent sign- | ing of the Four Power Pact between | England, France, Germany and Italy, | which is directed in the main against | the Workers’ Fatherland. . “In. the face of this growing danger | of war the New York District of the Communist Party calls upon the toil- | ers to muster on August First, Inter- national Day of Stsuggle against Im- perialist War, in the most determined | and militant demonstration ever held |in New York City. The Communist Party points out that the imperialist | war mongers who are spending bil- jlions for war preparations are the same ones who have refused adequate | relief and Unemployment and Social | Insurance to the over 17,000,000 un-| employed toilers of this country,! threatening to close down the relief apparatus in New York City, drastic- | ally destroying the masses’ living | standards by one wage cut after an-| other, and conduct the sharpest ter- Friday. Prices dropped from 5 to 50 points since Friday. The stock gamblers who were borrowing heavily from the banks were straining the credit situa- tion of: the banks by the increase of $600,000,000 in brokers loans. Seeing the crash coming, the big banks who had cleaned up theirs on the market, tightened up on loans, and the market took another dive. Bonds also dropped along with| stocks, | Wall St. White Collar| Workers Revolt. at! Long Hours,’ No Pay NEW YORK.—Roosevelt’s Recovery (Slavery) program has affected clerks on the stock exchange who revolted | today against the long hours- they are being compelled to work without pay in order to pile up profits for the speculators who are cashing in on the Roosevelt ination program. Thirteen white ‘collars workers walked out of the purchasing sales department of the Harris Upham Co., investment brokers, in protest against having to work overtime without any extra pay except supper money.) Clerks in other’ brokerage houses are said to be grumbling also. A com- kin, noted revolutionary critic and poet, Who died Wednesday at the| age of 33 after three years of illness, | in the Wofkers’ Center at 50 E. 13th St. yesterday afternoon. His body was cremated. | Though he was not a member of the Communist Party, Potamkin was | accorded a red funeral because of his revolutionary activity in the workers’ struggles since 1927. All during the morning hundreds of workers and artists walked by the plain pine box in which the writer reposed in state. A red flag draped in black covered the coffin. On either side stood a guard of three working-| class children, members of the) Young Pioneers of America, to which | organization Potamkin devoted ar-| dent work. Alexander Trachtenberg, represent-| ing the Communist Party; A. Wa-| genecht of the Workers’ Interna- | tional Relief and the Film Photo League; Joseph Freeman, of the John Reed Club; Martha Millet, of| the Young Pioneers, and Bill Grop-/| per, representing the artists of the| John Reed Club, paid the last re-| spects of their organizations at the) bier. A red banner reading, “Art Is a Weapon in the Class Struggle” hung| across the wall of the hall over ban- in Potamkin’s Work NEW YORK—A tribute to the role of the revolutionary press in the work of proletarian writers is made by Elizabeth Potamkin, wid- dow of Harry Alan Potamkin, Marxian \ writer and critic who died last Wednesday, in the fol- lowing letter to the Daily Worker: “Dear Comrades: “Enclosed please find check for $35 to be used as you see fit for the Daily Worker. “As you probably know, Harry A. Potamkin drew a great deal of his inspiration for poetry from the correspondence of workers ap- pearing in the Daily. “I hope this will serve as an indication as to how the Daily can be used by young poets and crit- ics in the future.” trial Union and many other organiza~- tions. Three members of the John Reed Club and three members of the Film and Photo League acted as honorary pallbearers. The body was taken to a crematory. There were no tears at the funeral, but a gritting of teeth and a deter- mination to-carry on where death force] Harry Alan Potamkin to almost without exception native born. While the crowd screamed in horror and rage, he fired,|and Wilmer Kriebel, 19, got a bullet in the leg. Again the sharpshooter—a thousand Lansdale strikers are looking for him—took careful aim, and brought down Claude Seiler, 54, also shot in the leg. Yesterday the | bombs began. The strike has been going on for three weeks, with unbroken ranks. Two or three years ago an attempt was made to organize, but the police succeeded in breaking it up, obeying the order of the mill owners, who had of course the united backing of the town’s business men. No meet- ings were permitted, wholesale ar- rests broke up the movement. Since then the stretch-out system has gained headway, and knitters were forced to tend two of the huge ma- chines instead of one, making 40 stockings an hour. A “high” wage would be $18 or $20 a week. With time lost by breakdowns of the ma- chines—the shop has to be kept at | around 80 degrees or the metal coh- tracts and the thread breaks—pay envelopes of $8 and $9 for five 12- hour shifts are the rule. Pay checks of less than a dollar have been handed out also. Strike—A Rank and File Movement. Thus a knitter producing 60 dozen pairs of stockings in a day might get $3 for his work, and the mill gets as high as $5 a dozen—$300, with the use of tear gas 3,500 WORKERS AT SCOTSBORO DEMONSTRATION Hear Ruby Bates and Robert Minor Bare * Frame-Up j NEW YORK.—Three thousand five : Negro. and white workers, f coming from Harlem by sub- and truck, demanded the im- «mediate release of the nine Scotts- boro boys in a demonstration on Union Square under the auspices of the International Labor Defense yes- terday evening. Ruby Bates, star witness for the defense in the recent trial of Hay- \ told the truth then, and I will to the same place and say same thing now. *Y join hands with both black and white workers.” Then she concluded for the freedom of all class war prisoners. Shirt member inf As- week, Other speakers included. Robert Minor of the Communist Party, (OONTINUED ON PAGR THRE (MACHADO HANGS ~ 2CUBAN WORKERS All Out in Protest In Union Square Today at 2 NEW YORK.—On the eve of the New York workers demonstration against the bloody reign of Wall Street and agent Machado in Ouba, in Union Square at 2 p.m, to- day, the International Labor Defense received word of the murder of two workers on Machado’s own estate in Oriente Province, Cuba. The International Red Aid of Cuba sent word that Machado has organ- ized a fake insurrection of workers on his plantation, using it as a pretext to hang two of his employees without trial. They had been active in or- ganizing real revolutionary struggles against the big landowners of Oriente Province. While Sumner Wells, American ambassador.to Cuba, announced that there were only” 25 poli in Cuban jails, the ILD reported that it knows of at least 125 workers The Anti-Imperialist-League will jalism, Fred Biedenkamp, Secretary of the Shoe and Teather Workers Union, Willlam Simon, National Sec- retary of the Anti-Imperialist League: of the United States. % i=. The Youngstown demonstration has already received endorsement of sev- | eral working class organizations, ror against the masses, Negro and white, in their struggle for the right to live.” Dear Comrades: Pe eae canta eae akin Your co emeraaan ia naRing Se any, Worker a better and a bigger paper. 4 “Because we are confident that you will give us the necessary help, we have already decided to increase the size of the “Daily”. ; Beginning August 14th our paper—your paper—will appear with six pages daily instead of with four as at present. On Saturdays, after August 14th we will have eight pages instead of six as at present. _ We are sure every reader is glad to see this big forward step. It was made necessary by the times, os * * * Tr world is on the brink of a new imperialist war, a War, which 4f permitted to start, will cost the lives of millions of workers and poor farmers. Thé Daily Worker must expose these war preparations; it must rally the masses for the struggle against war. To do this effectively, com- rades, we needed. more space. Roosevelt, with his so-called Industrial “Recovery” Act as the in- strument, is leading a new attack on the living standards of the toiling masses. He is cleverly combining a brutal policy of wage; cuts, cuts in relief, forced labor, persecution of Negroes, feverish military prepara- tions, etc., with the most demagogic propaganda about “returning pros- perity”, the “New Deal’, concern for the “forgotten man” and world " (3 ‘ ‘The Daily Wotker must show the hypocritical character of this pro- paganda, and rally the masses for struggle to maintain their wage levels, to shorten hours without cuts in pay, to secure immediate relief for the Jobless and the small farmers, and to force the enactment of social in- surance. This task also confronted us with the need for an improved and a larger paper. « \ The trade union bureaucrats of the A..F. of L. (Green, Woll, Lewis & Co.) and the leaders of the Socialist Party (Hillquit, Thotas, Hoan and Co.) are now increasing their activity manyfold. Although fre- quently appearing as critics of Roosevelt’s hunger and> war program, pany official denied that there had ners of fhe John Reed Club, the been a walk out although more than | Workers’ Film and Photo League, the! 300 stock runners were tied up. | Pioneers, the Marine Workers’ Indus- stop. ‘The ceremony was concluded with the singing of the International. enormous spread of $297 for material, (CONTINUED PAGE THREE) the bosses—invariably makes them mere tools of the bosses in the work- ers’ ranks. The socialist leaders, especially when they itfsist that the workers rely on bourgeois democracy and on their theory of “peaceful transition to socialism” only disarm the workers in their struggles and pave the way not for. socialism as they. promise, but for bloody fascism. The Daily Worker must convince the masses that the Socialist Party theories are wrong; we must expose the actions of the socialist and A. F. of L, leaders as actions which help only the bosses. . * Y enaga are some of the major reasons why we need a larger paper—a six page-paper daily and an eight page paper on Saturdays. But, comrades, we need your help! It is not enough to make the “Daily” a larger paper; it must become a better paper; it must be read by more workers, by more Negro workers, by more small farmers, by more agricultural laborers. We want your help in improving the paper; we want your help in extending the circulation of the “Daily”. . . . . [OW can you help to make the “Daily” a better paper? In many ways First, by writing us letters criticizing every article with which you disagree or do not understand, Secondly, by sending us reports of every event of interest to workers which occurs in your factory, trade union, workers’ organization or local- ity, sending these’ items quickly, making sure in advance that they are accurate, and endeavoring to give a full—though brief—picture of what you describe, Thirdly, by sending us factual reports of war preparations, the manu- facture of war munitions in the factories, the shipment of munitions, etc, Fourthly, by reporting the maneuvers and betrayals in full of the A. F. of L. and socialist leaders at the same time that you report all of the active and militants struggles of the socialist and A. F. of L. eee eeesestencie asc a Fifthly, by writirg us to tell us what the paper should’ contain that ! it does not now cont; in, particularly conveying to us those questions which are uppermost in t1e minds of the workers, those questions which we. must answer. Ww especially urge the Party comrades, the trade unionists, and the workers of the unemployed organizations to regularly write to us. ‘We can only edit the paper well; we can only make the Dally Worker your paper, if we have your daily co-operation. With such help from our readers, we will not only have a bigger paper after August 14th; we will have a better paper. We also want to introduce many new features into the paper—more pictures, more popular stories, book reviews, movie reviews, etc. Here also we want your suggestions. If you can write such popular features we ask your contributions, If not then we want proposals on what others should write. We desire to build up solid and lasting ties between those of us who are in the office and you who read our paper. We are sure, comrades, that you will help. ae Finally, comrades, with a bigger paper and—with your help—a better paper, we ask you to aid us in enlarging the number of our readers, Read the paper yourself and then pass it on to your shopmate or neigh» bor. Follow this up by asking for his subscription. Order a small bundle to sell in your factory or trade union. Tell the workers there of the great need for such @ paper as the “Daily”. .Be a constant booster for the paper. 'OMRADES, with such co-operation from you—from every reader, our Paper will rapidly improve and grow. It will become a better fighter for your interests and for the interests of the tollers as a whole. Send us a letter telling us what you will do to help us put over the six and eight page “Daily”. Tell us what you want the larger Daily- ‘Worker to be like. . . . . Comradely yours, ‘ @ A BATHAWAX, Batten,